Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Republic Steel Corp.

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

This is an appeal by an employer, the Republic Steel Corporation, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board opinion and order of February 26, 1975 awarding compensation to the claimant, Italo Brichetti, at the rate of one hundred and six dollars ($106.00) per week because of total disability due to anthracosilicosis and/or coal worker’s pneumoconiosis resulting from an employment of twenty-two years in coal mines. The appellants base their appeal on grounds that the Workmen’s Compensation referee in making his findings of fact…